God's Voice in Paul's hand II

As promised the second really cool thing God showed me through digging into the letter of Paul to the Church at Ephesus.
Eph. 5:18-6:9

Ok so here it goes, I love the way Paul writes, but most of you can probably tell that by now. Anyways Paul makes a command in verse 18 saying do not become drunk on wine but rather be filled with the Spirit. Now we can’t really go down to the store and buy some Holy Spirit and just pour it in, though some try this with coffee, but that’s another story for another day. So how do we do this? The answer is simple we don’t rather we have this done to us by God. When read in the original Greek this idea comes across much clearer, so I’m told (not a Greek scholar yet). Regardless the text says this that we are to allow ourselves to be filled with the Spirit. The following verses give us the result of this filling with the Spirit; we will sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to one another, be thankful, and then Paul writes also that we will, “be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.” From this verse through 6:9 Paul gives three examples of how this is worked out: from marriage, parenting, and working for an employer.
Each one of us ought to be filled with the Spirit because this is the only way we will be the united body of Christ that Paul talks about so many times in this book. As he writes in the start of Chapter 4, “there is one body and one Spirit… one God and Father who is over all and through all and in all.” I am so glad that my life does not rest on my own action but rather on the action of a perfect God.

Praise be to His name forever and ever amen!!!

In Him, TUCK